Measuring Test Automation ROI – in his post I.M.Testy has briefly touched on some aspects of test automation.

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I quite agree with his post and there are certain things that I would like to comment on and those are:

• I totally agree that “Automated software testing ‘is software development.’” and all the managers need to accept and understand that. Therefore an automated tester may demand and does deserve an equal salary package as his software development counterpart.
• I think it is quite difficult to come up with a measurable ROI on automated testing – but thats my understanding. Though it goes without saying that automating any testing is going to payback in future.
• There are always some managers (business and project) who do not understand importance and advantages of automation.
• Upscaling of team members is also very important and every testing manager should invest some time on training the team to understand the ROI of automation and take smart decisions on what tests to automate.